Ross Carrick
Lecturer in Law
Ross completed his undergraduate degree in Law (LLB (Hons)) at the University of Edinburgh in 2007, following which he completed a Masters by Research degree at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science in 2008. Since then, he has been completing a doctoral thesis on the procedural democratic legitimacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Law – being supervised by Professor Neil Walker and Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne. Presently, having completed a first draft of his doctoral thesis, he is in the process of editing. Between 2008 and 2011, Ross was tutoring on undergraduate courses at the University of Edinburgh in Jurisprudence, Public Law of the UK and Scotland, and Legal System and Legal Reasoning. He also taught on the LLM course EU Constitutional Law. Ross has recently been appointed as a fixed-term lecturer in EU Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, Worcester College.
Publications
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Ross Carrick, 'The Procedural Democratic Legitimacy of Constitutional Courts' (2012) Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/01.
Ross Carrick, Review of The Making of a European Constitution: Judges and Law Beyond Constitutive Power by Michelle Everson and Julia Eisner (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), (2011) European Law JournalVol. 17 No.1 138.
Presentations/Working Papers
International Fora
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October, 2011; First ACELG Annual Conference on “Open EU Decision Making: A Constitutional Challenge Promise, Practice and Perils”, the University of Amsterdam: Invited by Professor Deirdre Curtin (the University of Amsterdam) to present a paper on “Openness and the European Court of Justice” to members of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). Discussants include Christiaan Timmermans (former judge of the European Court of Justice), Thomas Vandamme (ACELG) and Thomas Beukers (the University of Utrecht). Publication forthcoming.
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November, 2010; Postgraduate Conference in “Law and Politics after Lisbon”, Centre for European Constitutionalization, the Faculty of Law, the University of Copenhagen: Presented a paper entitled “Democratic Representation in the Court of Justice of the European Union”. Discussant: Professor Marlene Wind (the University of Copenhagen).
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February, 2009; EU-Consent Project “Wider Europe, Deeper Integration?” organised jointly by the University of Cologne and Corvinus University of Budapest at a conference held in Brussels:Presented a paper entitled “Viewing the ECJ’s Political Behaviour through a Paradigmatic Transition in Socio-legal Enquiry” (Discussant: Professor Attila Ágh, Corvinus University of Budapest). Acted as a discussant for a presentation given by a fellow PhD student. Attended a five day programme of seminars on “theoretical, institutional and policy dimensions of EU deepening and widening”, in which presentations were given by members and former members of the Commission and the European Parliament.
Domestic Fora
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May, 2011; Spring Programme of Legal Theory, School of Law, the University of Edinburgh:Presentation entitled “The Mythological Legitimacy of Constitutional Adjudication” as part of the workshop entitled “Constitutional Adjudication in the EU”.
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April, 2011; Young Legal Researchers Colloquium, the University of Dundee: Presented a paper entitled “Access to (the European Court of) Justice: A Virtue of Democratic Legitimacy”.
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September, 2010; Workshop entitled “In the Name of the Citizen?”, Durham University:Acted as a discussant for Professor Deirdre Curtin, presenting a paper entitled “Conceptualising Open Government in the European Union: A Democratic Perspective”. Workshop was part of the project “Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen” (organised by Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne (the University of Edinburgh), Professor Michael Dougan (the University of Liverpool) and Dr. Elinor Spaventa (Durham University)).
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April, 2010; Young Legal Researchers Colloquium, the University of Dundee: Presented a paper entitled “The Procedural Democratic Legitimacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union”.
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December, 2009; Legal Theory Research Group Doctoral Colloquium, the University of Edinburgh:Presented a paper entitled “Beyond a Modern Theory of Democracy”.
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October, 2008; Doctoral Colloquium, “The European Union: Back to the Future? New Challenges after Lisbon”, the University of Edinburgh:Presented a paper entitled “The ECJ in a Crisis of Modernity” (discussant: Professor Neil Walker, the University of Edinburgh). Acted as a discussant for a fellow PhD student.
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June, 2008; Political Studies Association Postgraduate Conference, the University of Edinburgh:Presented a paper entitled, “European Constitutionalism and the Normative Role of the European Court of Justice”.
Interests
Research: Ross' primary research interests are in the political and constitutional theory, and the constitutional and administrative law, of the EU. He is more broadly interested in constitutional, political and legal theory; and a range of substantive themes in British constitutional and administrative law.
